Senior Plastics and Composites Design Engineer

Role details

Club Car boasts a 60+ year history of industry-leading innovation and design, initially focused on golf cars and then expanding to commercial utility vehicles and personal-use transportation.

General Job Description

Join a dynamic, growing small-vehicle company where your plastics and composites expertise will directly shape the next generation of golf, commercial, personal-transportation, and on-road vehicles. In this role, you will transform new product ideas into durable, high-quality production components—leading the full design and release process from concept development and material selection through supplier collaboration, tooling, manufacturing-process development, product validation, and launch. This is an exciting opportunity for a plastics design engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about creating robust plastic solutions that deliver outstanding customer value.

Primary Duties And Responsibilites

• Subject matter expert in 1 or more areas of plastic component design (exterior body panels, interior, chassis/structural components)
• Understanding of all processes to manufacture plastic components: injection molding, extrusion, compression molding, blow molding, thermoforming, and other common processes used for the manufacturing of products made from polymeric materials.
• Develop and maintain material and component specifications and qualification plans.
• Learn and contribute to requirements, risk analysis, DFMEA, DVP&R and specifications, engineering change notices.
• Employ project management methodologies that ensure a predictable outcome for development goals and responsibilities.
• Remove roadblocks and accelerate implementation of projects.
• Support the development of technology roadmaps and strategies
• Assist in developing test acceptance criteria using reliability and confidence in designs.

Other Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop and drive cross functional team to achieve scheduled milestones for assigned projects.
• Effectively self-manage large projects or multiple smaller concurrent projects
• Expert in Problem solving techniques (9-step, 8D, etc.).
• First point of contact within engineering regarding customer issues.
• Mentor designers, lab technicians and other team members.
• Understand and influence regulatory standards that affect your product.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE JOB

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Plastics Engineering Technology or equivalent is required
• Knowledge of thermoplastic and thermoset materials
• Familiar with DFM, Mold Flow and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) required for the development of plastic parts.

Experience

• 7+ years’ experience is recommended.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Must be self-motivated, a strong collaborator, able to think creatively and work with others to find solutions, drive execution, and focus on results.
• Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective verbal and written communications skills.
• Employs “best” solution to problem rather than most evident (considers business impact to other departments as well as technical requirements)
• Proficient at identifying project/subsystem risks and developing/executing subsequent mitigation plans
• Capability and willingness to teach and mentor others in plastics design processes and best practices.
• Passion for growing the technical capabilities of the company.
• High capability in in Microsoft products including, Excel, Word, Project, and PowerPoint.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or listen.
• This position may be required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to feel; reach with hand and arms, and stoop, kneel or crouch as needed.
• Specific vision requirements include the ability to see at close range, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Club Car is a diverse and inclusive environment. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, dedicated to hiring a diverse workforce including individuals with disabilities and United States qualified protected veterans.

Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated at Club Car.